Only one winner in race to shape Hong Kong

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On Sunday, in a modern exhibition centre abutting Hong Kong’s international airport, the oligarchy that now runs the former British colony will gather for a very Chinese piece of political theatre.

The members of the Hong Kong election committee, ferried from their homes across the territory to the Asia World Expo, will cast their votes in an election for the chief executive who will run the territory for the next five years. It will not, despite elaborately worded rules that provide for second ballots and recounts if necessary, be much of a cliffhanger.